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Old August 18th 07, 05:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
sparklinbluiz
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Default Receiving emails from hotmail accounts with picture attachment

Seems like an awful lot of work to read an email! What confuses me is why I
can go online to my comcast email and read it in perfect format, but when it
downloads into Outlook Express it is reformatted. Why would it change format
just because it comes through the program? None of my other emails do that
from other people. Even when I get email from aol users and I have to double
click the attachment line to open their emails, I can still read the email
when I open the attachment and the photos are still in tact. Their emails
don't come attached as message5.txt.
Now here is something interesting..I just looked at one of the email
messages online in my comcast webmail....it seems as if this person is
forwarding emails that came to her from aol. So maybe she receives it as an
aol attachment, then forwards it to me from her hotmail and it is coming in a
different format. I still can view it perfectly online but not in Outlook.
Any ideas on that?

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

They are doing a forward as attachment which should result in an EML
file attachment to you. But for some reason the file type is getting
changed. What you need to do is save the message5.txt attachment (e.g.
File, Save Attachments), then rename it to an EML file (e.g.
message5.EML) and then you can double click the EML file to open and
view it.

For more on this, see the Problems and Complications section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#problem

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"sparklinbluiz" wrote in
message ...
I hope someone can offer some advice. I use Outlook Express with
problems for
the most part, except when I receive email from a particular friend
who
always uses hotmail. Whenever I receive email from this person, the
"paperclip" indicates an attachment. When I open the message, in the
attachment line appears :message5.txt (message size). When I open
that, I
either get a lot of junk and have to pick through all the text to
"find" the
real message, or, I get an enormous amount of what I call binary
picture junk
(I'm sure there is a more technical name for it) but it is basically
the
spelled out numerical version of a photo. It is a bunch of jargon
instead of
the photo.

When I log onto comcast.net and open my email on the web, the photos
and
text appear perfectly. I have tried to play with my nortons antivirus
anti-spam settings, my Outlook Express security settings, etc to see
if I
have something set wrong and if I am somehow blocking these images but
I can
not figure this out. Can anyone suggest what the problem may be? It is
very
frustrating that this person keeps sending me email and I have to keep
deleting them or logging on to webmail.

Thank you!




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